November 12, 2025
As artificial intelligence technology continues advancing at a breakneck pace, faculty at UC Berkeley are optimizing computer science courses to keep undergraduate students informed and prepared for changing careers in the tech industry and beyond.
November 6, 2025
Emma Pierson, who joined EECS earlier this year, was named the department’s Zhang Family Endowed Professor. Hao Zhang, M.A. ’05, Ph.D ’07, contributed $1 million to establish the endowment and support junior faculty working on artificial intelligence. Pierson’s research has many…
October 7, 2025
Andy Konwinski, serial founder and Berkeley computer science Ph.D. alum, joined Jennifer Chayes, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), for a spirited discussion on shaping our AI future. More than 200 students and their parents, alumni and members of…
October 7, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Rikky Muller (Ph.D.’13 EECS), associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, can still recall her first glimpse into the world of neurotechnology. At a conference nearly two decades ago, she saw something that didn’t seem possible: chips recording neural signals from the brain, then using those signals to…
September 25, 2025
Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research. Last week, the AI for Math Fund announced a total of $18 million in grants for 29 projects, one of the…
September 23, 2025
UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today. The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. It shared that spot with Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford…
September 23, 2025
UC Berkeley Engineering holds onto the No. 3 spot in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of undergraduate engineering programs. U.S. News includes rankings for both computer engineering and computer science. Both are housed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is shared with the College of…
September 19, 2025
Five UC Berkeley students were honored as Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2026. The graduate students — all from computer science — join more than 1,900 distinguished honorees advancing research in the fields of bioengineering, computer science, energy science and business.
September 12, 2025
UC Berkeley EECS is proud to announce the creation of the Vigyan Singhal Fund for Chip Design Education, established through the generosity of alumnus Vigyan Singhal (M.S. ‘94, Ph.D. ‘95 EECS), now Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA. The fund will provide sustained support for instruction and the educational…
August 4, 2025
“Here we have an amazing example of how generative AI – with humans in the loop – can be used for good, at a scale that’s unprecedented, for a task that’s never been done before and for societal impact,” said Aditya Parameswaran, an associate professor at UC…